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openI can't figure out this show Anime
Anime where main character and his two friends travel the world getting stones to find out they need to go collect the monsters they got them from now. In the final battle he starts losing and all the monsters turn on him. It wasn't a long show. Only two seasons. But i can't find it. Help pls
openManga where a catgirl gets flattened by weird invention? Anime
I think the scene in question happened in a school's printing room. The catgirl stood too close to one of the machines and her tail got caught in the rollers, dragging her through. She's unharmed, but stuck in a paper-thin state. She runs off to find the scientist who made the machine so that he can restore her to normal, which if memory serves is achieved with a (possibly oversized) microwave.
Edited by RadayamopenSome Anime Anime
I have been thinking about an anime. I just remember one episode about a trio of students that were about to have a test, and for some reason, then one of them climbed into a clock tower to fix the abandoned clock there.
openDID Anime scene Anime
I once saw a scene in an anime where three women had apparently been sentenced to death. All three had their hands bound in front of them in a futuristic version of stocks and the woman selected to die first was obliged to bend over so that her stocks would lock into this pillar thing, the effect being sort of like a pillory, only with her neck exposed for the headsman’s axe. Just as the executioner was raising his axe for the chop, the women’s male ally managed to intervene and save all three.
openNinja Girl with a crush Anime
I'm looking for a manga about a ninja girl with a crush on an ordinary boy who goes to her high school. It's mostly from the girl's perspective. There is a chapter where she goes to great length to learn his phone number but at the end it turns out he doesn't answer calls from unknown numbers. In another chapter she accidentally forgets her ninja tools and takes knitting supplies with her instead but manages to take down the opposing ninja with those.
openSuper obscure anime with monsters from the 2000s (possible lost media) Anime
This is... something, alright. Nobody I ever talked to it about knew what I was talking about, nor it seems that it was already documented here. Did I have hallucinated this? I don't know.
I remember in the year 2009 in Italy they broadcasted a Mon anime series, which unfortunately, I never memorized the name. I'm pretty sure it was an anime and not just an Animesque cartoon, because it had that style typical of the Turn Of The Millenium animes. It had at least an Italian dub.
This Mon show was very notable in that it looks like it lacked any semblance of mon-related collectibles, which implies it was NOT Merchandise-Driven, nor it seemed to have evolutions for the mons; this also means that I couldn't possibly have seen Bakugan or a Digimon or Yu-Gi-Oh! series.
Other details I can give to better help identify it: The setting was mostly like our world except critters live alongside humans.
The protagonists were a quartet of kids plus the mascot mon, and pretty cliched; the protagonist was a red-headed Hot-Blooded Idiot Hero and probably an Extreme Omnivore as well; the deuteragonist was much more stoic and probaboy wore either blue or black, but also had some un-boyish hobbies; then there's the girl who was a pink-wearing tomboy; and finally the timid yellow-wearing smart guy; plus the mascot Mon who was a white-colored Cartoon Creature. I remember the five main characters bickering a lot with each other.
The main antagonists were a Terrible Trio of Green and Mean devils who were revealed to be brainwashed, but there also were a couple of GreaterScopeVillain.
I also don't remember any of the characters' names.
Some episodes I somewhat remember:
- An episode where the aloof lancer is revealed to like collecting plush toys, but his parents scold him for having such hobbies, but it's also revealed that the big guy from the Terrible Trio also collects plush toys and attempts to steal a rare plushie from the good guys;
- An episode where there's a huge monster on a rampage, and also a Mon that looked like a fire-breathing Jack-o'-lantern (one of the few "generic" Mons I remember from it);
- An episode where The Smart Guy saves the day but mistakes a boy for a girl;
- The Myth Arc and possibly the "finale arc", where the masco Mon flees, the kids try to find him with the protagonist trying to bait him out with EXPIRED snacks (that's very dumb, but one of the only scenes I remember clearly...), all the four kids touch a magic stick and get transported to a special place, where a "butler-like" Mon reveals to them that the mascot had an older brother who did an Heroic Sacrifice, using carvings in a wall to illustrate the story.
I've tried giving the most detailed account I could give at this point, and so far nobody else even had the faintest idea of what I was talking about. It could be lost forever..
openIdol show with a gorilla? Anime
No really the first thing that comes to mind about this anime is that one of the higher ups is an gorilla. But for more context: The anime is about three idols and their manger living in either space or a future world where I think aliens existed. I do remember the anime’s runtime was short but how long each episode was is a blur. That’s unfortunately about the only stuff I remember.
So does anyone know what the anime’s name was or am I the only person who remembers this oddity?
Edited by eirigfiopenAnime about an angel Anime
This was from a very long time ago.
I was at Fry's Electronics with my mother. She was look for a DVD of a specific anime, which I don't remember.
One of the series depicted a man and an angel. The man had black and I think glasses. The angel was a woman, dressed in the stereotypical gown, with wings. She had brown hair I think.
The striking thing was that rather than float above her body, the halo was supported by rusty/bloody metal beam growing out of her head.
There where two DV Ds with these two. One I don't remember. The other was the two in a prison cell. The man look panicked while Angel just stood there serenely, smiling at him.
The appearance of that Angel stuck with me all my life.
openShow based on specific character Anime
The character in question comes from what looked like a fantasy anime that someone was watching next to me. It was a dark-skinned woman with long, straight, mint-blue (or green?) hair.
I remember a couple of other characters, namely a bearded king with light brown hair and a short, blonde girl who looked like his daughter?
The anime in question was watched on Crunchyroll (from what I could tell) and seems recent enough to have been produced in HD.
openShojo anime with two colorful monsters Anime
REPOST: When I was younger, I watched part of a scene from an anime randomly on TV. There was a girl who saw another girl with her parents. The first girl was then chased by then couple, and all of a sudden, these slimes emerge from the mom and the dad that form into two demon monsters with long claws (one red and one blue), which caused the parents to collapse; apparently were possessed by the monsters. The girl fights these monsters, but then the monsters embrace and fuse into a larger purple monster. So the girl fights this thing with magic or something and destroys it, and this causes the girl and her parents to wake up all better. I tried to search for it, but I couldn't find it. What could this anime have been?
Edited by SilvershadeWolfopenAnime with wacky humor and multiple characters Anime
I'm not sure if it was a Shonen anime or Western animation. I only watched it once in TV, in the mid to late 2000s. It was dubbed to Spanish in this case. The plot was action-adventure oriented, with a group of main characters but I don't remember details. The only episode I watched was probably an early one, the group being in a field or a town.
There were two secondary characters who kind of joined the main group as allies, at least temporarily. One of them was an old man who was constantly doing dumb stuff in the background (maybe juggling or using a unicycle) and funnily saying "look at me, look what I do!" or something similar. The other character was a young man who also repeated a line in a similar fashion.
If I remember right, the main characters didn't pay much attention to those two men, as they were background comic relief or maybe just not plot-relevant. Despite the absurd humor, it seemed the series took itself seriously in some degree.
It's not Bo-bobo or Rave Master, but looked similar to them. Thank you!
Edited by combombopenPoetic death scene Anime
Some anime, a character dies, and we cut to their mom or girlfriend out in a field, where a strong gust of wind starts to blow. The mom/girlfriend looks worried at what it could mean.
Edited by IronAnimationopenAnime with the Characters Sleeping during the Credits Anime
I have this memory of an anime where the characters were all sleeping at night during one of the credits...
The anime in question had a guy with a strange doll and the credits end with the guy and the strange doll waking up to a new day.
openthink i've already posted about this before but Anime
it was an anime clip of a pink-haired guy holding a baby with pink hair as well and the baby tried to pull the guy's hair while a girl in the bg said something like "he rlly likes your hair!!"
i think from the little context i remember the kid he was holdin was his younger self??
Edited by jellygelly13openWant to ask if this outfit description sounds fmaailr to anyone? Anime
I think I recall seeing an anime character with a ninja-like outfit with a four pointed star shape on the back. I make this post to see if anyone recalled anything matching the description to confirm if A. it isn't an imaginary figment and B. if it exists try to study it for refenrce.
openBL Sentai Parody Anime
The most I know about this show is that I found it on TV Tropes, The protagonist was some sort of sentai or superhero fanboy and there was a card where he and some guy got married.
openNun with a tank Anime
I only vaguely remember a cover art of what was either some manga/anime or JRPG. It featured a nun and some other character on top of a rather dieselpunky tank.
It kind of reminded me of Chrono Crusade, but there wasn't a tank, was there?
openCG giant robot comedy shorts on CN Anime
Back around 2007, I used the see these shorts about CG giant robots, can't remember if the backgrounds were 2D or what. Don't remember human characters. It played during Cartoon Network Brasil commercial breaks. Probably played throughout Latin America. They lived in the woods, maybe a scrapyard surrounded by woods. I vividly remember the brazilian title being "Robôbos", but the only thing I can find by that name is an old Three Stooges cartoon. There were about five robots, each a different color. Their bodies were similar in shape to Mazinger. Can't say if anime or just influenced by it.
I can only remember a part of one episode. A character shoots red lightning from their hands, and stumbles while trying to control it. They were wearing purple, and had light orange hair.
Edited by Dragonman2455